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@with tute getent @ffice W. GARGILL, OF NEW HAVEN, GONNEGTGUT, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND l. STROUSE AND CDMPANY, OF THESAME PLACE.

.Letters Patent No. 73,873, dated January 28, 1868.

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Be it known that I, W. B. CARGILL, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven, and State of Connectiout, have invented a. new Improvement in Corset-Olasps; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawingsand the letters of reference 'marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in l i Figure 1, a front View.

Figures 2 and 3, the blanks.

Figure 4, asectional view, andin Figure 5, a. rear view.

- This invention relates to auimprovement in the construction and manner of securing the clasps to corset- Steels.

To enable others to construct my improvement, I will proceed to describe the same, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings..

A is the one steel, and B the other, such as are4 commonly used. The eye and button are usually secured one to each of the steels, by riveting thereto. This riveting not only weakens the steels, but bends or springs them out of shape. I overcome these objections by forming the button, rst cutting a blank, C, from sheet metal, as seen in iig. 2. Then bend the tongue a up, as seen in fig. 4. Then, placed upon the steel, the end cl of the bla-nk and the end f are turned down, and clasped tightly around the steel, as seen'in figs. 4 and 5, by sn'aging or equivalent means. The eye D is cut from similar sheet metal, as seen in iig. 3, and placed upon the steel. i The tongues c and e are turned down, and clasped securely around the steel, as seen in figs. 4 and 5, and the eye and button are claspedfso rmly as to be immovable on tle steels, and therefore tend to'strengthen the steels, and no riveting is required, the button being formed from one and the same `piece as the plate to which it is attached. The two parts are clasped and unclasped in the usual manner, and by this construction the steelsV are produced at no more cost than those riveted in the usual manner, and are superior, inasmuch as they over come all objections to the common steels.

I do not wish to be understood as broadly claiming placing the hook or eye around their respective steels.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and'useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I The within-described corset-fastening, consisting of the hook and eye, formed as shown, and secured to the steels without riveting, as herein set forth,

W. B. OARGILL. Witnesses:

JOHN H. SHUMWAY,

A. J. TIBBITS. 

